Robert gonsalves

Canadian artist Robert Gonsalves explores childlike stories of wonder through his surrealist paintings, capturing peeks of one’s internal daydreams through dual scene optical illusions. The works express both the real and the imaginative, painting a space where one can explore beyond physical limits. In his pieces inspired by the work of MC Escher and Magritte, subjects discover secret gardens hidden in carpets, forests just beyond the border of living rooms, and castles in misty lagoons…

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Robert "Rob" Gonsalves is an Award winning Canadian painter of magic realism -surrealism. He produces original works, limited edition prints and illustrations for his own books.

Rob Gonsalves creates surreal optical illusion art that imagines the world with magical realism. The dreamy images contain two or more scenarios within.

Paintings that are not what they seem at the beginning, bigger images in the post, to appreciate all of the details. Rob Gonsalves, not only has he been featured on DesignStack before, but is currently the most popular post of all time on our site, with 195,752 views, to date. I will put a link to his previous work here, or you can look at the right hand column, of the page, further down. Gonsalves always enjoyed daydreaming from a young age. As he grew up, he took a different path, working…

Discover the most eye bending optical illusion art pieces created by Rob Gonsalves. Just be sure to not lose your mind in them.

"The Weaving of a Spring Dream" Rob Gonsalves 2015

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